Dan Maker wrote: >Wynn said: > > >>Dan, >>Can you explain WHY "it would make an electrician shudder"? I see >>nothing wrong with it! >> >> > >As I'm not an electrician, I am only relating what my co-worker, who is >an electrician, said when I mentioned this to him. > >His biggest concern was that it was quite inefficent. For each watt used >at 120v in a 240v heating element, a higher percentage of it is wasted than >if you were to use the 240v element at 240v, or, and this is my own guess, >to use a 120v element instead. But he didn't think using the 240v element >at 120v was a very good idea. > >Ask someone else for a second opinion if you don't like what I'm relating >to you. It won't hurt my feelings. After all, this is basicly my opinion >and it's worth what you've paid for it. Absolutly nothing :) As others >on the list have indicated, it does work. > >Dan > > I'm not sure where this is coming from. As long as your wiring is properly sized to the heating element, a heating element cannot be much less than 100% efficient.
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